Difference between revisions of "English Painting"
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== William Hogarth == | == William Hogarth == | ||
| − | [[William Hogarth]] ''was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters. '' <ref>[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58655295 cfr:Page 9]</ref> | + | [[William Hogarth]] was one of the greatest innovator in English art. He ''was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters. '' <ref>[http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58655295 cfr:Page 9]</ref> |
== Sir Joshua Reynolds == | == Sir Joshua Reynolds == | ||
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English Painting has a long and rich history. It is believed that English painting had the influenced of Celts. However some scholars affirm that real English painting started in the 18th century; this is because the most important painters who worked before in England were foreigners (Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Anthony van Dyck, etc.), from mainland Europe.
William Hogarth
William Hogarth was one of the greatest innovator in English art. He was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters. [1]
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Gainsborough
William Turner
John Constable
| “ | John Constable is today recognised as the major English landscape painter of the 19th century, matched only by his contemporary, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). But he was not particularly successful during his lifetime.[2] | ” |
See also
External links
- Country Index:UK Olga's Gallery.
- British Biography Britain Express.
- Hogarth, Constable and Turner By SIR KENNETH CLARK.
- English Painting
- INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH PAINTING